Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, program and community for B2B SaaS startups. Founded in 2014 as Acceleprise, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible and successful for early-stage founders, through pre-seed and seed-stage funding, high touch programming, corporate perks and introductions, and an active SaaS community.  Forum For Founders, our pre-seed program, provides founders with $100k in funding and 15 intense weeks of talks, events, mentorship and 1:1 guidance focused on go to market and fundraising. Forum Seed, our seed fund, backs exceptional SaaS startups at the seed-stage both from within and outside of our pre-seed program.  With over 250 portfolio companies, Forum founders have gone on to raise from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Uncork Capital, 8VC, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, Canaan, Bowery Capital, Susa Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, SV Angel, True Ventures and many more. Learn more at www.forumvc.com

Forum Ventures

Inspiration focuses on technology based companies that need proof of concept capital. In addition to funding, Inspiration offers an entrepreneur to entrepreneur approach that provides operational guidance for young companies.

Inspiration Ventures

Tensility Venture Partners is a seed-stage firm that partners with mission-driven founders of early-stage enterprise AI startups in security, digital health, and novel, vertical-applications. The firm seeds and grows companies that will revolutionize business by delivering the promise of AI to the enterprise. It invests in cybersecurity, digital health, and vertical industry applications. Founded in 2016, Tensility Venture Partners is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Tensility Venture Partners

Motivate Venture Capital is a venture capital firm based in Chicago, IL. MVC invests in incredible founders with strong domain knowledge building new companies with very high growth potential in large and growing markets. Primary verticals of focus include Fintech, Insurtech, Payments, B2B software, B2B marketplaces, Crypto, DeFi, Blockchain, and web3.

Motivate Venture Capital

10X Venture Partners is a seed stage (and beyond) investment group. They commit operational experience and dollars to their portfolio companies.

10X Venture Partners

Indicator Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm investing in extraordinary founders building technology that makes work, life and wealth building easier and more accessible. We are a lean and collaborative team of lead investors at the earliest stages with over 70 portfolio companies across 3 successful funds. We are most interested in investing in companies building software infrastructure to remove everyday friction points and companies ensuring user accessibility in the worlds largest industries.

Indicator Ventures

Studio VC is an early stage investment fund that provides capital and hands-on guidance to growing companies with breakout potential.

Studio VC

Story is an early-stage venture fund based in NYC that invests in entrepreneurs with big visions leveraging technology and the proliferation of data to change the way people interact with the world.

Story Ventures

Green Egg Ventures is an early stage venture fund providing actionable advice and capital to the best entrepreneurs and technology startups in the world.

Green Egg Ventures

Maccabee Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund that invests in exceptional entrepreneurs who have assembled great teams with demonstrated product-market fit. Our goal is to actively assist these emerging companies inachieving market penetration, growth and scale by leveraging, harnessing and amplifying the 70,000+ well positioned alumni, faculty and academic strengths and energetic students of Yeshiva University.  Founded by two (Yeshiva University) alumni, the fund is associated with, but separate and distinct from, Yeshiva University.

Maccabee Ventures

Cold Start is a venture builder that incubates and funds mission-oriented companies.

Cold Start Ventures

Polymer

Polymer is a data governance and privacy platform for third-party SaaS applications such as Slack, Dropbox, Gdrive, Zendesk, Zapier, and many others. This protects against data loss and cyber breaches. The solution provides a single pane of glass to configure, permission, and track usage of sensitive data across the organization to become PII, PHI,HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA compliant.

<div><p>Polymer offers a no-code data loss prevention (DLP) platform for users to automatically manage and remediate breaches and risks associated with sensitive data from third-party SaaS applications such as Slack, Dropbox, Google Drive, Zendesk, OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint, GitHub, and Zapier. The platform leverages an entity recognition engine that it claims offers over 90% accuracy in identifying compliance-related items within days of deployment. This, in turn, enables cyber security and compliance teams to govern internal data and provide real-time data controls.  </p></div>

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    Polymer offers a no-code data loss prevention (DLP) platform for users to automatically manage and remediate breaches and risks associated with sensitive data from third-party SaaS applications such as Slack, Dropbox, Google Drive, Zendesk, OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint, GitHub, and Zapier. The platform leverages an entity recognition engine that it claims offers over 90% accuracy in identifying compliance-related items within days of deployment. This, in turn, enables cyber security and compliance teams to govern internal data and provide real-time data controls.  
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    As of December 2021, the company served 18 customers across the healthcare, financial services, and insurance industries, including Signify Health, Medly Pharmacy, and Branch Insurance. The company also has multiple pending patents for its remediation technology. 
    In April 2022, the company enabled users to redact and remediate employee exposure of sensitive data in near real-time through Google Drive, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft OneDrive, Github, and Box, among other SaaS platforms.
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    In December 2021, Polymer raised USD 4 million in seed funding led by Story Ventures to further develop its autonomous DLP for SaaS platforms. Additionally, Polymer plans to launch “plug and play” data governance and DLP in Q1 2022 to enable non-technical business owners to set up directly from the company’s website.
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    Index offers a no-code platform for enterprises to build dashboards for internal use to obtain insights on business metrics, investor updates and operation overviews, among others. As of June 2021, the product remains at beta, with a limited early preview. The platform provides prebuilt templates, and also has tools for users to build their own dashboards.  
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    The dashboard can be integrated with multiple apps including Hubspot ((customer relationship management data), Stripe (payment data), and Postgres and MongoDB (databases), slack (remote working) and Google Sheets (spreadsheets), among others. 
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    The company raised USD 2.6 million in Seed funding in October 2020. It intends to invest the funds in hiring two engineers (in addition to the two founders) and continuing to refine and develop the product. The founders aim to reach USD 1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and expand their product distribution. 
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Index

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    Stencyl offers a drag-and-drop no-code platform that enables users to create and publish web and mobile games. Users can build their game logic using the platform&rsquo;s pre-built code blocks, design visual elements via an in-built graphics editor, and publish across a range of platform&rsquo;s such as IoS, Android, Windows and Mac. Moreover,&nbsp; Stencyl also enables users to embed ads into their games as a secondary source of revenue.&nbsp;
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    As of February 2024, Stencyl was used by over 500,000 registered developers. Apps created on Stencyl have reached top slots in the Apple App Store and Google Play, and its most successful web games have been sponsored by major publishers including ArmorGames, Kongregate, and Newgrounds.
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Stencyl

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    PlugXR Inc offers a no-code platform for users to produce AR, VR, and MR (mixed reality) apps. Its platform offers cross-platform development for both Android and iOS and supports software development kits (SDKs), collaboration, and report and analytics on the apps. The company operates in the US, Sweden, and India.
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    As of 2019, its customer base rose to 37 clients (from 14 in 2016), while its workforce grew to over 30 people (from 14 in 2016). PlugXR raised pre-seed and angel funding in 2019.
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PlugXR

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    Universe offers a no-code platform for users to build websites that can be added to social media pages. Websites can be built using drag and drop blocks to add images, videos, and other content to create a mobile-first website. The Platform offers creative controls, 30 pre-made themes, and block features to allow users to create a custom site and/or open an e-commerce store directly from a mobile phone.&nbsp;
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    The company began as a landing page builder and progressed to developing websites, which include tools for adding shopping blocks. Universe targets micro businesses that are not tech-savvy.
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      <u>In July 2023</u>
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    , Universe launched the beta version of Generative Universe Sites (GUS), an AI-powered website designing tool. This solution provides a conversational interface for users to dictate their requirements for a website and then generates a customized web page.
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    In December 2021, Universe raised USD 30 million in a Series B funding round led by Addition to develop the company&rsquo;s block-based system for website building named &ldquo;GRID,&rdquo; expand its commercial offering for startups, and extend GRID to more platforms and devices. 
    Additionally, the company used the funds to&nbsp; expand its reach in new markets and grow its employee base.&nbsp;
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Universe

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    Readymag is a web-based drag and drop tool that enables users to create websites, presentations and digital magazines. Its customers include large enterprises such as AirBnB, Forbes, Esquire, and IDEO.
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Readymag

Offers solutions for building internal applications and automations for enterprises

Many solutions enable users to leverage AI/ML for predictive analytics

Offers solutions for building enterprise-specific applications and automations

Some solutions leverage GenAI to enable users to build application and website templates without coding

Allows users to create apps for their own businesses by using their data and ideas and converting them into apps to improve their workflow.

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